Accountabilities

• Supporting Project leadership with budget development according to Sonder's guidelines, best practices and donor requirements
• Ensure project budget aligns with tax regulations (in collaboration with Finance management), invoicing processes and schedules, and maintains positive cash flow.
• Reporting on Sonder project financial performance and suggesting improvements
• Reviewing and approving budgets in the proposal stage and ensuring that Sonder RAC recovery are being appropriately factored into project budgets.
• Regularly meet with project leads to ensure shared understanding and visibility on project finances and compliance for forecasting, spending and reporting.
• Tracking and reporting on project budgets.
• Working with Contracts and Project leadership to confirm financial details and processes of project contracts with clients.
• To support projects in conducting due diligence and guidance on financial management and reporting to project subcontractor organisations.
• Support projects with financial tools, templates and models to support internal budget management and tracking by project teams.
• Informing Accounts Receivables and Invoicing of project invoicing schedules and instructions.
• Following up with project leads to ensure that project funding (invoices) have been fully appropriated.
• Supporting with project donor financial reporting, budget variations, etc.
• Regularly meet with the Finance management, Operations and Organisational development role to discuss and solve tensions in project-finance processes.